palpus

When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.

From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg

Terminal joint of each palpus less than a third as long as the middle joint.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

It may be distinguished by the fact that the middle joint of each palpus is of uniform size from end to end instead of tapering toward its outer end.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

The labium in Japyx is four-lobed and bears a small two-jointed palpus.

From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

Each short palpus has a large middle joint and a small joint at the tip.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just below the eyes there are two hairy projections, called the palpi, between which is the coiled tongue or sucking tube.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

The mandibles have no palpi, the maxillipeds or foot-jaws are used as feet, whereas in the mature form they serve as jaws.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock

The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. µ They have mandibles, modified a poison fa?gs, leglike palpi, simple eyes, abdomen without segments, and spinnerets for spinning a web.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The rudimentary condition of the palpi is connected, as remarked under the Anelasma squalicola, with the absence of efficient cirri.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin